Sew A Fleece Baby Sleep Sack

I [heart] sock monkeys!

So when I was at Hobby Lobby one day and saw this awesome fleece sock monkey fabric, I HAD to buy some even though I had no crafts planned at the time. A couple months later, I had the brilliant idea to make a sleep sack for Connor.

I took one of his sleep sacks that he currently used and traced around it to create my own pattern. I enlarged it a little and made it significantly longer so he could grow into it. (They grow too fast!)

I added a 1/4 inch seam allowance around the whole thing so I would have room for seams.

The cheating way to make the sack symmetrical was to just draw one half of it and then fold the piece of paper and cut it out.

I pinned the pattern to the fleece and cut it out. I did the same thing for the front side of the sack, but cut the neck hole a little bigger.

I'm embarrassed.
Well, I must have been really tired back when I made this because I don't think I took photos of the rest of it! But the idea was adapted from the Make It and Love It tutorial. Mine is similar, but I simplified it and didn't use bias strips. Anyway, the little cutie is happy to be wearing his sleep sack and modeling it for you!

I figured the sock monkey would make a nice prop!

The blog post is not complete without a little Kitty in it :)